Love and Haight: Jim Marshall’s Iconic Sixties San Francisco Photos
San Francisco wasn't the center of the rock universe when Jim Marshall moved there in 1964, but the photographer must have sensed something amazing was about to happen. Within a year of his arrival, bands like the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company began gigging around town — and Marshall was there to capture all of it on camera.
"He was a professional genius," Michelle Phillips told Rolling Stone when Marshall died in 2010. "But he was ever so discreet — I never remember him taking pictures."
But he did take pictures, thousands and thousands of them. Some of them, like Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival and Johnny Cash flipping the bird at San Quentin, are among the most iconic images in rock history. But in the past few years, archivists have combed through his archives and discovered an astonishing treasure trove of unseen photos from the Haight-Ashbury days. The best of them have been collected in the new book The Haight: Love, Rock and Revolution. Here are some stunning images from the book, which is in stores now.
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Jimi and Janis
Image Credit: JIm Marshall Jimi Hendrix filming Janis Joplin backstage at Winterland in 1968.
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Drawn Out
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Joan Baez and Paul McCartney doodling backstage at Candlestick Park in 1966.
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Full Tilt
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Janis Joplin backstage at Winterland in 1968.
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Let’s Get Together
Image Credit: JIm Marshall Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane during a songwriting session, 1967.
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Teen Dream
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Grace Slick and Janis Joplin during a shoot for TeenSet in 1968.
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Bookends
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Ralph Gleason with Simon and Garfunkel.
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Easy Riders
Image Credit: JIm Marshall Brian Jones, Nico, Judy Collins and Dennis Hopper. Hopper based his character in Apocalypse Now on Marshall.
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California Dreamin’
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Tourists observe the Haight from their cars in 1967.
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Unlikely Harmony
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Hippies and Hells Angels hang out together in Golden Gate Park in 1968.
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I’m From Rolling Stone
Image Credit: Jim Marshall RS' Ben Fong-Torres interviews Haight Street residents.
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Love, Janis
Janis Joplin in her apartment on Lyon Street in San Francisco, California in 1968.
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Dark Side
Image Credit: Jim Marshall A drug den behind a store front on Haight Street in 1967.
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Bold as Love
Image Credit: Jim Marshall Jimi Hendrix at the Pandlehandle in 1967.
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Hometown Heroes
Image Credit: Jim Marshall The five original San Francisco legends photographed together: Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Charlatans, in 1967.
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Get Free
Image Credit: JIm Marshall Graffiti at the intersection of Haight and Belvedere Streets in 1967.